skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think all of your concerns disappear when the answer is that the wealth part is not relevant - it is the monetization of that wealth. You can’t eat art or stock. We already tax when you sell the art or stock or earn income off it. What we don’t tax is the use of those things as collateral for loans, but beyond a certain value we should do that.

Then when you die, it all is converted to a dollar value in transferring to others and at that point there should be a massively hefty tax above a certain dollar value. We need to eliminate dynasties and the use of money for influence. Cap wealth at $50m or something.
> the latest chip delivering phenomenal performance to the all-new iPad Pro
What a joke. They have M4 and they still run iOS? Why can't they run MacOS instead?

If you take it a bit deeper: if an iPad would have keyboard, mouse and MacOS → it would basically be a 10/12 inch macbook.
Neither Windows Aero nor Zed renders every single frame, 120 times per second. The parent comment is correct is correct that the important thing is to be able to render any given frame in 1/120th of a second, but to leave things alone when nothing is changing.
It's funny how that feels wrong for undefined reasons, but it doesn't feel wrong when that happens to apartment buildings, isn't it? We associate houses with property ownership and apartments with renting, even though owning an apartment or renting a house aren't in any way inherently less reasonable.
That's a pretty far cry from

> which is to make sure the candidate can actually write code, like at all

It's also still a terrible approach and only gets leet code crammers.
Ongoing discussion [0] (128 points, 19 hours ago, 112 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281272
Reddit Reports Sales Topping Estimates in First Report Since IPO
In my work, if you literally cannot write any code while also discussing the code, and if you literally cannot express thoughts while also thinking them, then you actually wont exceed at the actual job function, at all. You're not the only programmer on the team. I don't know why people think communication skills are not required for programmers. You won't be coding the correct thing unless you can talk about what you're doing.

And that's all I ever ask in an interview. Ask questions and talk about what you're doing. The worst hires I've ever seen were all the ones who never asked questions and never talked about what they were working on. Half sentences are fine; moving away from the keyboard while we talk is fine; being unable to talk and think at the same time probably is not.
No? Most traffic calming is not designed to send sudden shocks through your vehicle that cause extra wear and tear.
> Disney's 2016 buybacks, totalling $7.5B.

> Make an argument for me that those specific buybacks increased my wealth.

Ok, I see November 25, 2016. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/disney-stock-history-will-sh...

The "Fool" says DIS is buying back its stock. On November 25 the stock price was $97, 3 months later it was $105. You could have made $800 by selling 3 months later.
Sounds like an attack vector waiting to happen if you deploy enough competing expert devices into a crowd.

I’m imagining a lot of these LLM products on phones will be used for live translation. Imagine a large crowd event of folks utilizing live AI translation services being told completely false translations because an actor deployed a 51% attack.
Yeah, no people ever sat on thrones from literal solid gold and never owned dozens of giant castles and hundreds of people serving them there...
I love graphic novels but have almost no interest in superheroes, so I'm very thankful to Japan for hard carrying the industry in that regard. You can find Manga about pretty much any topic and level of sophistication.
I’ve seen similar, except the building had > 10 ft ceilings for some reason (it had been a factory). The owners built a ~ 9ft “building” that was missing a wall (and ceilings) inside the space. That was where the kitchen and bedrooms were. Light came in through the open wall in the kitchen, and from where the drop ceiling in the bedroom would have been. The rest of the factory floor was hobby / office / entertaining space.

It was spectacular.
> But why did you configure 3 machines with 64+ GB, if 8 GB RAM are "100% perfectly fine" for typical work tasks?

Did you miss this part prefixing that sentence?

> I can't run a lot of VMs or compile giant projects with 10 threads, of course
We should be a union of people who won't take this kind of bs. I have the same exact procedure as I think interviews like that show a complete lack of understanding of what makes a developer great in a company, and let me tell you, solving CodeSignal/Leetcode unpaid for hours isn't that.
I precisely answered to "Are there any companies formally doing "product improvement engines"? with the reason why there aren't.
Indeed it can be. There was a lot of action in the O club in one’s off days. We oftentimes thought however that these a-launch crews probably had it worse, except at least it would be more quiet without all the active comm systems. And since we were always “alert” we took part in many, many global military exercises…
This is actually why I dislike these "coding interviews are useless" type articles. The issue has as much or more to do with bad interviewers than it does with the fact that it's a coding interview.

When I'm tasked with interviewing candidates and evaluating these basic algorithmic and coding skills, I have a 5-part problem (each building on the next, and only revealed when the previous one is complete) that is basically impossible to finish in the time allotted. I tell the candidate ahead of time that it's an ongoing problem that's designed to not be completable in the time: we're going to work through this problem and see how far we get. I've passed candidates who "failed" the actual problem, when the conversation and coding that were shown still gave me a good understanding of their capabilities.
I like it and I'll take it a step further. I think this is important information for a developer to admit to THEMSELVES at least. Being all things to all people is a route straight to burnout for an open source project.
> Starliner would not have even been thought of without SpaceX bringing competition

I may be wrong, but I believe both Starliner and Dragon were commissioned when Russia invaded Ukraine, thereby threatening NASA’s access to Soyuz.
So, is this really an engineering community?

"battery storage capacity on the nation’s grids has grown tenfold, to 16,000 megawatts"

"California now has 10,000 megawatts of battery capacity on the grid"

After reading all of the comments below, i only find tangential reference to the fact that MW (or any kind of Watts) is not a measure of capacity. Even the tangential comment, that MWh is not MKS, doesn't highlight that the article never mentions MWh, everything is described in terms of MW, which is obviously power, not energy.

It seems even the referenced state reports make the same error:

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

And the governor's office:

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/25/california-achieves-major-...

As an actual lefty (not a woke-nut (or a wing-nut)) I'm not a fan of Gov Gavin. But the article wasn't really political, whereas the overwhelming majority of comments here are.

It doesn't shine a favorable light on the HN community in terms of being technically focused...
You know G in GPU stands for Graphics, right? So if you want to play a game of words, NVidia's device dedicated to something else is 30 times faster than "fastest" Apple's device dedicated specifically to neural processing.
I’m in Europe and everyone uses WhatsApp, and while Android does gave higher share over here, iPhone still dominate the younger demographics. I’m not denying blue/green is a factor in the US but it’s not even a thing here. It’s nowhere near the only it even a dominant reason iPhones are successful with young people.
“Most batteries still come from China” and that’s a big issue in regard with the ongoing trade war and future war. At least for lithium.

That’s why it’s a strategic plus to go for electric vehicles build upon lithium to have a certain amount available locally for the recycling process.
The heck do I do with an M4 in an iPad? Scroll hacker news really really fast?

Apple needs to reinvest in software innovation on the iPad. I don't think my use case for it has evolved in 5 years.
Why do you think nobody needs more than billion dollars?

I know if I had a billion dollars there are lots of things I'd fund. Why should I not be allowed to do that? If I had a trillion I also have things I'd fund that I couldn't at a billion
Yeah. IME, the world (universe) of the Culture is quite interesting and thought-provoking, but the plots are kind of lame and predictable. Not terrible, but not the reason to read the books.
It doesn't necessarily discourage investment much from the perspective of society as a whole - 1 person worth $20 million isn't obviously making way more investments than 2 people worth $10 million (or 4 people worth $5 million). It's also not obviously an improvement to morality for a society to worry about someone worth $10 million continuing to increase their net worth while looking the other way while children (who in absolute numbers surely outnumber those worth $10M+) lack food, housing, basic healthcare, etc.

Just because we are currently making one set of choices does not mean we could not be making a different set of choices.
Lyft Beats on Bookings, Adds New Riders
Thanks for releasing this.

Always wanted to play with these models!

It's great to be able to use modal and get predictions without a gpu.
They must be updating the blog post, because I just checked and saw they listed benchmark results for MMLU, ARC-Challenge, BIG-Bench Hard, DROP, F1 score, and HellaSwag. However, their link https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/responsible-machine-... is showing 404 for me
Stupid simple error ignoring in JavaScript
There are at least two distinct workloads for ChatGPT: 1) No context, general knowledge workloads, 2) Contextual workloads using either RAG or direct input of context.

In general, GPT will not hallucinate or give bad responses on the latter since it's working from a specific corpus of information (whether from RAG or from some context directly provided by the user). This is, of course, not foolproof since some of it is dependent on a good prompt and some of it is dependent on the question (GPT is well known to be poor at math, for example). But for summarization, it is exceedingly good.

The former is where it can tend to hallucinate and generate bad responses.
I tend to use AlternativeTo for that.

For example: https://alternativeto.net/software/pyspread/
Upd: searching in the github mirror by the commit hash from the issue, found that https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/1e3312a25a7b34d6e3f... is in fact in the 'releases/gcc-14.1.0' tag.

Even weirder that this one got swept under the changelog rug, it's a pretty major issue.
I've seen this in Texas, notably on I-35 through Austin and on I-10 east out near the state line. In sequence, single-file, all the machines needed to do the job, from milling the surface at the front to laying down the new blacktop, rolling it, and IIRC painting it. Just creeping up the highway. Pilot vehicles at the front and back to close/open the lane.

Texas definitely throws money at the problem. Although lately they're optimizing their spend for larger checks to fewer contractors on bigger roads. Simplifies all the kickbacks I'm sure.
absolutely awful update. they're destroying this app
Not only it’s probably cheaper in France, but France has strong employee-protection laws, so closing a company there will probably be more costly on severances alone, assuming they can justify to the government why they are closing that company.
Relative change from 1993... +967,741,835% Amazing.
As mentioned in the FAQ there's a heuristic built into the HN code which checks if pages are requested too quickly to combat abuse.

It seems it was a little overzealous a little while ago which even made it false flag people navigating through the index, but luckily dang and the team seemed to have fixed that (I happened to be one of the victims and reported it...)

Anyway, you can unban yourself -just once- by following https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102. Note that you have to do this from another IP than the banned one, like a mobile device on 5G instead of your home wifi so keep your phone or tablet handy.

If for some reason the algo flagged your IP again you are SOL and need to contact dang through the Contact link below.
- Try something entertaining instead of something useful. Pick books out of interest, not out of pragmatism or obligation. If a book doesn't work for you, try another.

- Make it a special time. Start your bedtime routine early, light some candles, make tea and have a go at it. Or sit in a nice café, or after a nice picnic. I love reading myself to sleep, or with tea on the balcony in the morning.

- Remove distractions. I read on a disconnected iPad with no internet and no apps except for reading and notetaking.

If you want to put it in productivity-over-everything terms, reading before sleep is a really good way to wind down and get solid sleep. It's also a great way to build vocabulary, get different perspectives, and enjoy idle time without doomscrolling.
Amazing! Great to hear you're thinking about / working on this.
You could probably fire them with special artillery shells, just as deploying remote minefields or cluster munitions.
I have found no difference in just using cold water and having it sit on my counter overnight vs. keeping in the fridge. It is nice to still refrigerate it to use less ice or no ice though. In a retail setting, I would think customers would demand a cold product (I would). The Starbucks near me serves Nitro Cold Brew and for some reason it's always warm/room temp, and they purposely do not put any ice in it. Other locations seem to not have this issue so maybe it's broken equipment or training.
Probably because Boeing is also part of ULA, so they have a vested interest in using their booster. Looks like "if it's a Boeing, I'm not going" isn't just for airplanes any more.
Because roads and pipes cost money, and you eventually have to pay for it.
Nothing about this except the idea of a limit is ridiculous.
> Confused why people do this in the first place.

Because you lose a significant amount of performance if you start adding NULL and variable-length columns just because you're afraid of a table rewrite.

Because the resulting table will not have had 1 table of update-induced bloat at the end of the operation.

Because you can be sure the modification is applied atomically and you as the user can be sure the migration from A to B goes through as expected or has a graceful rollback to the old data, rather than getting stuck or failures halfway through the migration.

Because toasted data from DROP-ed columns is not removed from storage with the DROP COLUMN statement, but only after the row that refers to that toasted value is updated or deleted.

...

Every column you "DROP" remains in the catalogs to make sure old tuples' data can be read from disk. That's overhead you now will have to carry around until the table is dropped. I'm not someone who likes having to carry that bloat around.
Yeah that asterisk popping up in my head was why I did some more digging as well :) thought tbf, the Dead never seemed to care much about vocal quality so it wouldn’t have been crazy for this to work well only for a narrow band. I don’t have any intuition for exactly how narrow that band would be and how that’d sound in practice though.
Serverless Runtime / Database Co-Design with Asynchronous I/O
In-process database like SQLite is the holy grail for low-latency database access on the edge. However, the synchronous I/O is holding it back, but how does in-process database look like with asynchronous I/O?
I can't think of a larger moat in any industry where the leader has such a gigantic head start than spaceX. The "old guard" is so far behind why would the US Govt. or NASA give those companies any money now as it would be akin to setting it on fire. I mean spacex had 96 launches last year compared to ULAs 3. It just shows how much bureaucracy can just kill a companies innovation.
Open Source Emoji Credibility Indicators
> How often are you pulling from a shared branch that you are making local commits to

When more than one dev is working on a feature branch? You could take feature/a, branch off feature/a.1 for your local work but at some point you gotta incorporate work from feature/a. Not so different from origin/main -> main.

git pull --ff-only should really be the default (changeable) behavior.
All of that is very true, including the bit about private works.
I really wish edit.com still existed for Windows and was built in. Every now and then I need to do some stuff on a Windows machine and find myself wishing for a simple terminal editor.
You are not alone! This is also how I run coding interviews - I have absolutely passed candidates who did not actually complete the described problem. I always inform my candidates that we want to have a conversation about the problem and its solution. I also deliberately pick questions that are going to need thought and some design, specifically to spark that conversation - talking about reversing a list gets boring pretty fast.

The issues people have with coding interviews are more about the interviewers than the questions, honestly.
M1 Ultra did benchmark close to 3090 in some synthetic gaming tests. The claim was not outlandish, just largely irrelevant for any reasonable purpose.

Apple does usually explain their testing methodology and they don’t cheat on benchmarks like some other companies. It’s just that the results are still marketing and should be treated as such.

Outlandish claims notwithstanding, I don’t think anyone can deny the progress they achieved with their CPU and especially GPU IP. Improving performance on complex workloads by 30–50% in a single year is very impressive.
Comparing these directly like this is problematic.

The 4090 is highly specialized and not usable for general purpose computing.

Whether or not it's a better value than Apple Silicon will highly depend on what you intend to do with it. Especially if your goal is to have a device you can put in your backpack.
but it's a wall built and patrolled by the opponent that is preventing the population from leaving the combat zone
Thanks Jonathan! Awesome to hear that you're excited about the auction.

Great questions on the auction system dashboard. The left gray box indicates how many GPUs are available for on-demand access. So in your specific example, 688/1464 GPUs means that 688 GPUs (out of a total available pool of 1464 H100s) are ready to be rented. Finally, the 1040 GPUs and 8 GPUs all indicate GPUs that are currently being allocated to customers.
> My ASK HN: Any advice on finding modern resources that keep everything that can serve as an introduction to networking?

The CompTIA Network+ book 8th edition (2022). These books aren't just for preparing for the CompTIA exams (that's a side benefit if you decide you want to get a cert later) but really are great to read on their own and learn everything you didn't know you needed while being curated. Good for those students who don't have a CS degree like you explained why the other books aren't suitable. Your local public library will usually have one on the shelf, check it out! Select the chapters you want to teach and skip the others. If you want something even more introductory, you can look at the CompTIA A+ book 11th edition (2023), skip the IT specific and focus on just Chapters 18-21 (Chapter 18 Essentials of Networking, Ch 19 Local Area Networking, Ch 20 Wireless Networking, Ch 21 The Internet) as reference for something even more basic but still well structured. This book is especially tailored for those just starting out and more than suitable for a highschool audience.
Kansas City Metro has stated that since going fare free they have seen an increase in "nusiance riders" (riders that don't follow the rules and get hostile with staff when given instructions). They are trying to find ways to combat this and have considered reinstituting fares, even just a small one. It will be interesting to continue following their experiment.
The sole purpose of limiting coins was to create an asset with increasing value.
For anyone who doesn't follow rocket launches: Launch scrubs happen /constantly/. It happens to everyone, and a single scrub is not a sign of problems with a program.

If it takes multiple scrubs with months of delays before it finally launches, then it'll be another thing to add on to Starliner's list of difficulties fulfilling their contract with NASA. However a scrub or two is business as usual.
Not everyone has billion rows in their tables ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
120 GB/s memory bandwidth. The M4 Max will probably top out at 4x that and the M4 Ultra at 2x that again. The M4 Ultra will be very close to 1TB/s of bandwidth. That would put the M4 Ultra in line with the 4090.

Rumours are that the Mac Studio and Mac Pro will skip M3 and go straight to M4 at WWDC this summer, which would be very interesting. There has also been some talk about an M4 Extreme, but we've heard rumours about the M1 Extreme and M2 Extreme without any of those showing up.
"Free soda" and "free beer" are analogous, if that helps.

Or, since it seems to need explaining, the point is that "beer" is not one thing with one recipe and if somebody offers you "free beer" it is pretty obviously a specific kind and batch of beer.
The Bobiverse series ("We are Legion (We Are Bob)") is also very good and kind of along the same style.
Do companies really want to solve it? Why hire so many MBA's when the nerds will wreck and devalue each others contributions/potential?
The first time presumably, in 2014.
> I don’t talk while I code. You don’t either.

That's quite an assumption. You've never heard of pair programming? You've never asked for help on a bug in your code? You've never talked through alternate approaches to a piece of code with a coworker? You've never hashed out an interface or a method signature or some pseudocode while talking through the problem? You've never walked through a calculation with an SME? All of these are "code and talk at the same time" exercises.

If I'm being brutally honest, I have a deep-seated suspicion that everyone who says they can't talk and code at the same time also just cannot code at all. I don't know you, of course, and I'd love to be proven wrong. My sample size is small, but the few people I've met who cannot talk-and-code also simply could not code.
Can I join your bubble?
Why wouldn't it be phones?

I could read right now, but instead I'm on my nth round of the Hacker News front page. Reading competes against instant gratification, and it doesn't win as often as I'd like it to. Reading requires discipline when scrolling is an option.
Honestly, I'm surprised that it took tetris so long to be broken!

Before this, what made you think arbitrary execution was plausible?
Right, so you are disabling all performance features and effectively turning your CPU into a low–end low–power SKU. Of course you’d get better battery life. It’s not the same thing though.
Not sure what windows does but the popular method on e.g. fedora is to split memory into main and swap and then compress swap. It could be more efficient the way Apple does it by not having to partition main memory.